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I sing the Doctrine Electric

February 8, 2011 By

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).

Another Saturday Night…gas tank on full..dashboard active…Wakefield…………  damn!  this Doctrine is fun!

In attendance this Saturday: glenn (riding shotgun);  Ms AKH ( dans le tableau de bord) and Progenitor roger with a first for this new world of auto-conversation… he made the first ‘call-in’ (while we were already en conversacione ). 

The weather was fairly inclement, we kept to the route.

But that’s not important now… however, we will be informing you how to participate in our new “Ask a DownSpring”  semi-live webcast-ette.  But for now lets talk about the reason we are at this here blog here.

  • the Wakefield Doctrine is a way of looking at the world, but mostly looking at the people in that world
  • the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers maintains that there are 3 characteristic ways that all people experience the world around them
  • the Wakefield Doctrine refers to these three ways as living life as clarks, as scotts or as rogers
  • the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers maintains everything we do and everything we are arises from this view
  • The Wakefield Doctrine offers one type (clark or scott or roger) the opportunity to see the world as the other two (clark or scott or roger) experience it.
  • the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers maintains that we start out life with the potential of all three, but pick one and try to forget about the other two.
  • the Wakefield Doctrine believes that personality type is nothing more than appropriate behavior, that it is the world that is different (in one of three ways) not an individual’s selection of traits and responses and inclinations.
  • the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers maintains that clarks view the world as an outsider does, that they are apart from everyone else and that everything around them is not supportive, to the point of being inimical
  • the Wakefield Doctrine suggests that all people are capable of going beyond their chosen way of viewing the world ( clarks, scotts and rogers) and adding to their abilities to cope with the challenges of life.
  • the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers maintains that scotts see the world as a predator does, to be on the alert for threats from greater predators and to be on the alert for prey comprises most of their day to day lives
  • the Wakefield Doctrine suggests that by identifying with the way that the ‘other person’ experiences the world we enhance our own lives
  • the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers maintains that rogers are the ones that experience the world (and life) as a member of, a part of, an aspect of a world comprised of relationships
  • the Wakefield Doctrine offers everyone the opportunity to understand why the people in our lives behave the way that they do
  • the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers maintains that if a person can accept the fact that the other person is literally living in a (slightly) different world then conflict is eliminated
  • the Wakefield Doctrine offers everyone the chance to be more, to live fuller lives, to understand others, to not be confounded by the actions of others, to not be a victim of the behavior of others.
  • the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers maintains that when it comes to living with others, we pretty much got it covered
  • the Wakefield Doctrine is not free nor is it easy and it is definitely not for everyone
  • the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers requires a certain capacity to understand, a flexibility of intelligence that is necessary for a person to not simply ‘get it’ but to be able to use it to their own benefit
  • the Wakefield Doctrine is a unique, useful and fun way to finally make sense of the behavior of those people in our lives; at home, at work, in school or at play.

That’ll do.  New Readers? We are not just all about the work! We ‘borrow’ videos from the youtube and we have ourselfs a good ole time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRE7idEq2Ak

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7 Ways to Spot 1 of the 3 Personality Types of the Wakefield Doctrine

February 5, 2011 By

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )

Antigone and Oedipus, yo

Sweeps Week is coming to a close, time for one more Post with keywords like personality theory and the euphonious clarkscottroger and to tie it all together, leave us not forget (that we are trying our hand at ) predicting human behavior. Is this,  improvisational academia1 at it’s best or what? God! I love a contest! ( Or is this a ‘challenge’…nah, more like an ordeal….heck with it, lets just call it our little secret).

As the authors of these Posts, we would be totally remiss in our duties if we did not spend as much time as possible reading articles and blogs on the subject of SEO and the effective presentation of ideas to the interent audience. Specifically, trying to learn new and better ways to present the Wakefield Doctrine to y’all.  To this end, we have those little  icons down at the bottom of each Post. Clicking on these allow you to ‘Share’ the Post with others on the internet. You can even do a facebook “I Approve of this Fine Post” kind of message  (referral or whatever the hell they call that little thumbs up icon).  In addition,  we have been twittering (…tweatting?…twitterationing?)  …sending out those ridiculously short, instant messages announcing each new Post.  …there is a Twitter icon to the right, on this very page! Why don’t you just go ahead and click on it,  send a message to @wakefielddoc.

In any event. the  message of today’s Post simply is: Let us know what you think about our little blog here.

So, I was saying that we have one last opportunity (during Sweeps Week) to get the word out about the Wakefield Doctrine and I just read a blog that stated that one of the best ways to encourage Readers to write Comments is to write Posts that include ‘Numbered Lists” as a part of  the plot  ( ha, ha… the plot  that really cracks me up!  but then again it is 2:30am  suppose it doesn’t take much…) Today’s Post will provide you with a numbered List of ways to spot clarks and scotts and rogers.
Oh yeah! Ms. AKH is making me write shit at these other blogsites…   We are at a site called Yahoo Contributor  and also some other place called Hub Pages…both of these sites have straight, serious article-things about the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers. Nothing you don’t already know, but  it wouldn’t hurt if you just click on the little links and see whats up over there. So, on with the main event! This is the part that (according to the blog I read) you hvae come here to read. The List of Ways to identify clarks or scotts or rogers.

List 1

  1. any female person wearing more jewelry on her face or in her hair than any other part of her body….clark 
  2. the cashier at your supermarket who manages to get you talking about why you really prefer the frozen chick pea over the fresh…roger
  3. the long-time friend that when you are invited (by other friends) to bring them to the party, you feel the need to explain how out-going they are and that they really are nice and will help anyone in a pinch…scott
  4. the spouse who will visit a near total stranger in the hospital, alone yet has to be dragged to family celebrations including but not limited to Christmas, Thanksgiving, funerals…clark
  5. the significant other who devotes more energy to a specific vocation/avocation than they do to their own frickin healthcare, yet guards it more jealously and with a higher degree of secretiveness than a former member of al qaeda  (who has converted to Judaism)  in a synagogue…roger
  6. you feel that even if your friends wife made your friend promise that you would never be in the same room again, all in all it was a pretty good party…scott
  7. you sit up at 3:05 believing that if you keep at, something amusing will occur to you  and  if nothing seems at all funny as you write it, that might be the indication that you are creating something that everyone else will find totally funny later, but you also recognise that you can’t take that too much to heart because that would decrease the chances of that happening…clark
  8. (courtesy of DS#1) …extreme shoes on the feet, if you see a person with shoes that are the fashion equivalent of a totally tricked-out low-rider car, then you are looking at a.…clark

Now, the article I was reading is emphatic that to capitalize on this technique, the author should, at the end of the Post, ask the Readers if they have any additional items to add to said list. Which is kinda too bad, because it seems around here at the Wakefield Doctrine a lot of Readers are shy about offering their opinion on matters of the Doctrine. I admit that I have made jokes about Readers writting Comments that have been a bit less sensitive to the feelings of people, in particular the one about how ‘there are no stupid questions, just your questions’…( damn!  loves that joke..)

Write whatever you please.2 We will still give you a music video, even if you can’t add to our List of 7 Ways to spot a clark or a scott or a roger.

lol  Somebody go call glenn, tell it’s safe to come back now….promise him he’ll like the next one…really lol

1) Totally give credit to the Progenitor roger for this little gem. ‘Improvisational academia’ does not quite rise to the level of full rogerian expression, those things are in a class by themselves! For a better understanding of these,Higgs bosons of the spoken word, go on over to the page on rogers or if you have your mind right, just go to the source, over at Gregory Campbells’ office. So you will  be aware of what you are in for, allow me to cite a rogerian expression. (..written in a blog for real estate agents:  “…and my opinion is that for the most part, people dislike real estate agents because they all too often come across as much too self absorbent“)  

2) No, this does not apply to you, glenn…write what you would write on your little facebook page or wall or whatever they call it and  you will not have to worry about  your written words being adulterated by a librarian who, for whatever reason, looks like either Lenny Bruce or Bruce Jenner ( or was that Lennie Small).

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Personal Relationship Advice, Wakefield Doctrine style

January 30, 2011 By

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers) Personal Relationship Advice Post (slash) Guide.

clarkscottroger sometimes the lines blur

This is the second in the series of really-trying-to-get-found-by-search-engines Posts,  with all the keywords in the title and all.  Hey, you want to hear something odd?  (yeah, ok…odder) The Post that is ‘the landing page’ that Readers get here by lately is the “One, Two, Three, Four Can I have  a little more”  Post. Wish I knew why that was,  I would write 6 more of ’em and we would be damn popular.

The Relationship Advice that the Wakefield Doctrine has, offers everyone something different. Well, it offers everyone three different things….( jeez!  all right!  ) … the Wakefield Doctrine  offers everyone three intertwined viewpoints that are related, but in practical terms, comprise three totally different personality types.  (You people got that? can we please move on now? I do have a life and it is not getting any longer… )
(All kidding aside), the above illustrates the challenge inherent in any theory of personality,  that is predicated on knowing the frame of reference  of the subject. This, in contrast, to the many personality theories that simply are a laundry list of actions, behaviors, traits and tendencies. They have it totally easy, all they do is say look at this list and pick which most describes you. Like you’re gonna pick the traits that are in conflict with your self-image! Even here, at the blog of the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers, people are people and if you read a description of a persoanlity type that you think is not complimentary, you are probably not going to sign up under the  “loves children, gets off on the suffering of others, cherishes family but does not like to share, self-conscious to near autistic levels” category, are you now?

Here at the Wakefield Doctrine, we got you covered! You do not have to describe yourself, all you have to do is describe the world. The world that you experience, the world that you live in, the real world. Gots nothing to do with you, nothing personal,  all we need to know is what type of environment do you wake up to each and every morning? Here, try this:

The world is:

  • a puzzle, full of things that are interesting and people who are relating to each other in a way that is just out of reach, almost but not quite understandable
  • a challenge, invigorating, everything and everyone is in motion, every detail is important if it is moving towards you, so does not matter if it is moving away…
  • makes sense, what are you saying what is the world like? it is that it is..
  • full of people, they sound like people you could relate to if only you knew more
  • food, shelter sex
  • tradition, stability, continuity
  • where the joy of life lies in the simple things, the hunt…the chase…the pre-kill…the kill…
  • knowledge like a crossword puzzle, you know everything is supposed to fit together, you really don’t think they put in random pieces, but sometimes….maybe they did…
  • the beauty of  people as they learn about how they can work together and that rules when followed are not rules, they are as it must have been meant to be…

See?  Wasn’t that better? The 3 personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine are described in this short list. The beauty part is that it is not about you, it is about the world. No one here is put on the spot to reveal what they think is the right way to act, at risk of looking like a loser. NO. We simply say, tell us what the world looks like to you and we can tell you which of the three types of personality you are,  a clark or a scott or a roger.
Pretty simple, isn’t it?

(Speaking of pretty simple.  Ms. AKH raised a question about the scottian character that is actually kinda of informative…in a simple.. scottian way, nothing overly complicated but an interesting illustration of one of the basic ( have I used the word simple too much yet)…quality of the scottian personality..let’s listen in…)

… scotts respond on instinct which is both their strength and their total weakness…strength because of the speed of response, weakness because of the simple matter that just as scotts are comfortable being submissive, providing that they know their ranking, they (scotts) have a point of give up that makes them the easiest of prey…

…scotts are COMFORTABLE being submissive? the easiest of prey?! do tell…

 …stand by that statement… it has to do with the concept of ranking. Ranking for a scott is as critical to the well-being of a scott as does the presence of the herd for a roger…
the clue to this (being true) is that this ‘submissiveness’ is only to a dominant equal

…thank you for clarifying this for our new readers

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3 personality types as described in the Wakefield Doctrine

January 28, 2011 By

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine  ( the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers )

With today’s Post, we are going to get all search friendly. We will be using and placing keywords like clarkscottroger, personality theory and 3 personality types. The reason that this makes us ‘search friendly’,  is that when a person does a google search (for say personality types), google ‘goes out’ and surveys every site in the internet and when it spots a keyword, that particular site will be included in the search results. Given how we want people to hear about and learn about  the Wakefield Doctrine and it’s incredibly useful and unique advice on relationships and other personal matters, we thought we would try to give the google a hand.  We are aware of this search-ability thing  because our own DownSpring,  Ms AKH  says so. Far be it from us to question a scott in possession of specific technical information. Ms. AKH has been totally at work trying to figure out how we can get the Doctrine in front of everyone on the internet. Aided by her trusty sidekick Doug, (think Batman and Robin…only not as gay) she has made suggestions with a persistence that while not as much fun as the Death by a Thousand Cuts, does have an effect over time.

The Wakefield Doctrine is a unique way to look at the people in your life. Your family and your friends, your co-workers and fellow students. Everyone.  The  viewpoint, the perspective that the Doctrine offers you is incredibly helpful.  Very simply, we think that the more you understand about other people, the better your life can be. If that does not make sense to you then perhaps you might have more fun at a blog like,  knitting-for-fun-with-Eloise.com  or wrenches-and-girls-by-steve.com  (tell ’em the Doctrine sent you).

Have you ever had someone say something or do something that caused you say to yourself, “Why would they do ( or say) something like that?”  You know how it feels. One minute you are enjoying the company of another person and the next minute they do something that you just did not see coming.  And it isn’t always  the mean or cruel or spiteful things, sometimes it is the just the un-expected things that make you wonder about the other person. The kind of actions or statements that has you wondering if you really know that person or not. And it is usually nothing overly dramatic, one of your children begins to do their chores without having to be asked, or your husband compliments you on something that you did without thinking.
If you have ever been in any of these situations, the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers is just what you need.

There are more theories of personality, personality types and 20 Questions Schedules that offer  to tell you who you should marry/ go out with/ get rid of/ try to be more like, out there in the world than you can virtually shake a digital stick at. Everywhere you turn, someone is telling you that they can help you figure it all out (whatever ‘it’ may be…perfect mate, lose weight…find job or the perfect line to get that girl of your dreams…).  So, your question at this point should be, Why another Three Personality Types?

Because you have not yet found the one that you really are satisfied with, an approach to life that you believe is helping you get what you want, otherwise  you would not still be reading this here blog here, would you now?

So, in closing we will pose the question floating above many Readers heads ( you  know, those thought balloons that cartoon characters have over their heads to indicate thought as opposed to speech): So what? Why should I bother trying to understand another person?

Answer: No reason. At least there is no reason that can come from us. We know we like the Wakefield Doctrine and we also appreciate  the value we find from knowing about clarks, scotts and rogers. Chances are, if you have read this far and still want to see something written that will convince you that this is the real deal, personality types-wise, then you need to get on back out there, keeping searching the internet for the answer. The Doctrine is not for everyone. Hey, who knows? You might find a site that will take you by the hand and guide you to happiness. You never know, it might happen.

So, here is the lowdown on the Wakefield Doctrine.

Everyone is born with the potential to experience the world in one of three characteristic ways:

  • an outsider never a part of, feeling shy yet never going un-noticed, creative yet un-willing to take credit for their creations, living inside their heads, trying to have a life sustained by the energy from remembering past triumphs and fearing future defeats and searching for the knowledge that will change it all
  • a predator, always on the prowl, living in the world of predator and prey constantly on the alert for (larger) predators and never resting in the hunt for food, eschewing the subjective and reflective life beyond eat, sleep, defecate and reproduce…in other words, a natural leader
  • a member of: the team, the family, the group, the community, the world is one of rules and standards, the highest good is to preserve the past and the most efficient way to accomplish that is build structures,  physical and social and cultural and moral, your legacy is that you are what you identify with

 …and at a certain age we become predominately one of these three. Our personalities, our traits of behavior are simply appropriate responses to the world we experience, given the ‘bias’ described above.

We retain the qualities of the other two characteristic ways. With some people, they are extremely ‘of the one type’ and as such,  their capacity to see the other two viewpoints is deeply buried,  out of reach. Others,  such as the people here at the Doctrine (and by definition, you the Reader ) are not as caught up in their predominant viewpoint and can imagine the world of the other two.

So come on down. Glad to have you. Read this stuff and write a Comment and ask for a hat. Go visit Friends of the Doctrine like  girlie-on-the-edge and  KJ Workman

But we always try to have fun here…

enough frivolity!

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and started to fly in the infinite sky

January 25, 2011 By

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).

This site is dedicated to presenting what we have come to call the Wakefield Doctrine. A ‘homepsun’ theory of personality, the Doctrine (as it is often truncated in name) offers a unique, useful and fun way to look at the behavior of the people in our lives. Sometimes referred to as a ‘theory of personality’, the Wakefield Doctrine is more of a ‘shorthand’, a codex quare infernum sunt sicut agens,  if you will, that has evolved over 20 or 30 years of observation of the human condition.

Here at the Doctrine, composed as we are of a number of… highly disparate personalities ( …hey he called us disparate…whats dat mean…bet its somethin dirty…) as often as we butt heads over means and methods employed to present this theory of personality, we nevertheless remain  inextricably bound by the truth of this thing of  ours, in that we all share in the traits of the three forms, clarks, scotts and rogers and it is only the preponderance of one (set of traits) over the other that causes one person to smile sweetly and invite the other to a false level of intimacy while a minute later another (of us) is capable of pushing away the group and ingratiating themselves into a group that had heretofore been reviled.

Go figure.

What I started to say, we are always trying to move on, grow and develop. So for the fun of it…lets try to be Mel!!1

 

 

Fox Sports chairman calls for shorter NASCAR races

 

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Fox Sports chairman David Hill believes NASCAR races need to be shortened to fit into a three-hour broadcast window.

Hill said Monday night the length of races — many stretch well into a fourth hour — is one of the problems that’s contributed to NASCAR’s sinking television ratings.

“I think the racing is far too long,” Hill said during Charlotte Motor Speedway’s annual media tour. “There is more diversion, more opportunities for stuff than any other time in man’s history.”

Hill said the ideal for Fox would be a four-hour broadcast window, with 40 minutes of pre-race coverage and 20 minutes of post-race coverage. Asked if he’d push NASCAR to shorten any of its races, Hill didn’t miss a beat.

“NASCAR doesn’t negotiate,” he deadpanned.

…Hostage Negotiators were flown to Charlotte as satellite photos indicated a dramatic increase in the traffic heading into the city. “Mostly F10s and quite a few Camaros”, remarked imagery specialists, when asked about what the photos indicated. Tent cites have begun to spring up in the suburbs around this  city often described as the  “Mecca of race car drivin and such”  In Washington, the White House (…”thats right! it’s call the White House and it always has been called that, so shut up!”…) announced yesterday that is is monitoring the situation, but plans no action at the present time. When one reporter asked, “Will President Obama go there to speak to the NASCAR-istas?” the terse reply was,  “yeah, right!”

Well, that was…fun…kind of interesting.
Mel, dude! Hats off with the topical Posts…they lot harder than they look. Not only do you have to take the time to find a story, then you got to clip it from the source (like boning a fish, leave it looking like the original, minus it’s structure!). Then,  getting the photos in place, (that took about twenty minutes right there)…and finally, if that were not enough,  you need to write something (quote) original (unquote) something funny has to go after the story!! Like thats gonna happen every other day. Damn.
I think I best be leavin the topical stuff to Mel, the prospect of a future in which I spend my time cutting and pasting news stories from Yahoo News just to get something up here, nah… one day has been quite enough, thank you. Besides, I suspect  that the target demographic for the Wakefield Doctrine is not gonna have Yahoo on their Twitter account. Just a hunch, but given today’s experience trust me when I say, you do not want to spend your excess free time at Yahoo News! You know Fox News? and their whole politico-cultural-reactionistic mindset?   Yahoo makes Fox look like the Berkeley Free Press, (except not as subtle).

1) Mel, the creator and author of the excellent Spatula in the Wilderness…. (co-Protagonist in the soon to be completed screenplay for a totally indie film Project…working title: Oh, blog!  Part 1)

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